Improvement in baby-carriages



1 12J. HYNES; BABY-CARRIAGE.

No.173,793. Patented Feb. 22,1876.

N UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

PATERICK J. HYNEVS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. l

IMPROVEMENT IN BABV-CARRIAGES.

Specification' forming part of Letters Patent No. l73,"793,tdatedFebruary 22, 1876; application led June 25, 1875.

To all y whom it may concern. y

Be it known that LPATERICK J. HYNEs, of Springiield, Massachusetts, haveinvented certain vImprovements in the Construction of Baby-Carriages, ofwhich'the following is a' specification My invention relatesv to the'combination, with ababy-c'arriage, of a rotary fau, to be operated bythe movement of the wheels.

In the drawings Figure I is a plan view-.of a portion of a carriagehaving my improved fan, and Fig. II is a side view of the Same.

This fan is intended more particularly to be applied to that class ofcarriage that is propelled by being pushed from behind, so that the fanmay perform the double purpose of fanning at the same time the child inthe carriage and the person moving it, though it may `be applied `to acarriage drawn b va tongue.

to fan the child. 1 Combine it with the best' results, as shown in thedrawings, where the bearings for the fan-shaft are attached to theVhandle D, and where the position of the'fan itselfl will consequentlybe at an intermediate point between the child Within the carriage -andthe operator without.

In Fig. I the carriage-body is removed from Athef running-gear, and thehandle D by which the carriage is pushed is shown attached to the axleE, instead of to the carriage-body, to

which it is generally secured. From the carriage-handle D are securedthe adjustable uprightsF F by means ofthe thumb-screws f f, which,passing through the elongated slots g g in the uprigbts, clamp them tothe handle. The ends of these uprights form the bearings for thefan-shaft G extending between them, and each end of the shaft G Iprovide with the pulleys H H. VThe fan K may be formed of any materialand in any convenient shape. From pulleys L L upon the hub of theWheels, belts M M pass to the pulleys H H, and by varying the relativesizes of these pulleys H H L L the fan may be speeded to any de-` sireddegree, while it will be seen that by means ot' the adjustable uprightbearings F F the belts M M may not only he kept taut,`

but the `fau may be raised or lowered at will. NOW, having described myinvention, what I claim is- Ina baby-carriage the combination of thepulleys L L and H H with their belts, the

shaftV G with its fan K, and the adjustable bearings F F, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

' PATERIGK J. HYNES.

Y Witnesses:

R. F. HYDE,

F. E. CMLPENTER.`

